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^ery i ft. What are the kinds of foil from which 

 you generally obtain the beft crops of wheat, barley, 

 peafe, oats, beans, vetches, turnips, carrots, and 

 cabbages; and what are the ufual quanties of feed 

 fown, and the average produce per ftatute acre, 

 Winchefter meafure? 



Anfwer. Our beft crops are generally obtained 

 from hazel loams; and if they are fomewhat ftiff" 

 gnd inclining to clay, the better. On fuch lands, 

 the ufe of heavy large harrows and rollers in the 

 fpring, to break and pulverize the foil, cannot be 

 too much recommended. When the lands are fo 

 pulverized, we frequently get of wheat from four 

 to five quarters, beans from five to feven quarters, 

 barley and oats fix and often feven quarters per acre. 



The quantity of feed generally fown per acre, 

 is, of beans, peafe, wheat,* and barley, three 

 bufhels; of oats, from four to five buftiels. 



^. id. What is the ufual courfe of crops adopted 

 by your beft farmers on the difl^erent foils? 



A. Our beft lands never lie fallow,- and the order 

 of our crops is, 



1. Wheat; 



2. Barley, or Oats; 



• Is it not fiirprifing, that in a county where Agriculture i( arriTtJ to fuch 

 pcrfcflion, farmers fliould fow three bushels of wheat per acre? Certainly two 

 buOiels, even in the broadcaft way, would be fully fuf&cient. 



3. Peafe 



